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Arts teachers are aware of and respond to the many differences they find among their students. In this session, participants meet a visiting theater artist who takes advantage of the different backgrounds and learning styles of 9th graders to help them understand and embrace the playwriting process. A visual art teacher brings together honors art students and students with disabilities so they can learn from each other. As a music teacher works with...
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Beethoven's darker side is contrasted with his sense of humor in the development of Movement 4 of his String Quartet Opus 18, No. 3 in D Major. In the final episode of his musical education series, Maestro George Marriner Maull revisits a number of previously presented musical devices, such as sequence, that are found in the work. He explains the sonata form's ternary components - exposition, development, and recapitulation - and analyzes components...
83) What Is Energy?
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Energy is the strongest force in the universe. But where did it come from? This program covers the origins of energy, energy through the ages, physical and chemical changes, and the definition of energy. We’ll also explore energy in different forms, including fire and its discovery, calorific energy, the invention of machines, petroleum, windmills, photosynthesis, the Sun, energy reserves, and mechanical, electrical, and luminous energies.
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Visiting the site of the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl, Stefan Gates finds people living on toxic land. His journey takes him right up to the crumbling sarcophagus itself, and when a woman prepares a meal from produce grown in her garden,Gates is faced with a tricky dilemma.
85) Bizarre beasts
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We take a look at some of nature's odder creatures; the Technicolor chameleon, the blind and bucked-tooth naked mole rat, and the half-pig, half hippopotamus babirusa make appearances.
86) Antarctica
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In Antarctica, millions of penguins congregate to mate during the warm season. But it isn't all romance, leopard seals have traveled from as far as Australia to prey on them.
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This special version of Newborn Care includes all the same essential information as the standard version, but without any mention or visuals of artificial nipples or formula feeding. Itteaches the essentials of newborn care and the latest in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) safety guidelines.See solutions to common challenges and hear information needed to make the best, and safest, choices for an infant. Content includes: appearance, senses...
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This special version of Newborn Care includes all the same essential information as the standard version, but without any mention or visuals of artificial nipples or formula feeding. Itteaches the essentials of newborn care and the latest in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) safety guidelines.See solutions to common challenges and hear information needed to make the best, and safest, choices for an infant. Content includes: appearance, senses...
91) The Cold War
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This is a timeline of events in the history of the Cold War, from 1945 to 1991. The Cold War was a period of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union after the end of World War II, as they tried to prevent each other from gaining too much power, with the threat of nuclear weapons looming.
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This program gives parents of preemies the essential information and emotional support they need. This specialized program answers common questions about the NICU, shares success stories, and most importantly, prepares the family for life at home. Volume 3: Going Home covers: preparing for discharge, being at home with a preemie, SIDS, early development, and possible long-term complications.
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Newton’s three laws of motion are fundamental to many aspects of physics—including collisions. This clip covers the laws, explaining each and looking at how they apply to different examples of collisions. Calculations involving force, mass, acceleration, and stopping time are applied to various scenarios. It is an excellent learning resource for senior-level physics students.
94) Thermodynamics
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It’s time to get energized and make things light up, heat up, power up, and break up. This program will melt away the complexity of thermodynamicsc and the functions and laws behind it. Heat up your class and make things happen, just like the energy found in this video. Topics include: Energy Basics, State Functions and Hess’s Law, The First Law of Thermodynamics, The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Gibbs Free Energy.
96) Deserts
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The world's deserts are lands of extremes that force animals to come up with ingenious ways of coping with hostile conditions, giving rise to the most incredible survival stories on Earth. A pride of desert lions are so hungry they risk hunting a giraffe several times their size, while male sandgrouse fly 120 miles each day to the nearest waterhole and dice with death to collect water for their chicks. Filmed for the first time, a tiny bat does battle...
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Detective Inspector Bones investigates an unusual Victorian traffic accident; Roman scientist Pliny the Elder suffers a Stupid Death in ancient Pompeii; Prime Ministers Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill argue online over what to do about Adolf Hitler; and we discover the horrible history of early Australia.
98) The Pilgrims
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Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims' journey west across the Atlantic in the early 17th century is a seminal, if often misunderstood, episode of American and world history. The Pilgrims explores the forces, circumstances, personalities and events that converged to exile the English group in Holland and eventually propel their crossing to the New World; a story universally familiar in broad...
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In this program we meet the rather eccentric Georgian philosopher Jeremy Bentham; super-rich Roman politician Crassus raps about his blinging lifestyle; some unusual soldiers are recruited into the Second World War; and Johannes Gutenberg goes head-to-head with some monks on The Historical Apprentice.
100) Insects
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Insects are the most diverse animal group on the planet. The key to their success is their unique ability to reshape themselves. They possess fearsome weapons, yet can display surprising tenderness and sophisticated behavior. Take to the skies with millions of monarch butterflies in Mexico; see a beetle spray boiling chemicals at its enemies; witness giant bees fight to the death over females; join the marching columns of grass cutter ants; and spend...